THANKS for stopping by, I do my best to acknowledge when someone leaves a comment,you do not have to be a member here & everyone is welcome. Ps: This site is monitored but not actively posting on a regular basis. Mostly these are stories & some photos saved from a defunct site known as Verdun Connections which was on MSN Groups initially then on a social network called Multiply.
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I always thought they walked across - - now I bet someone will tell me there is no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny --- WWWWAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH Gary
Hey isn't that the same picture that was posted on the point site ,? I believe that Brian Conroy posted that as well.......but I think we have that same picture in one of our albums........and think it came from the Verdun culturelle Centre on Bannantyne........A very good site for some Verdun Memorabilia.......
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The barge landed at the foot of River St, adjacent tothe edge of the Grand Trunk Boating Club. There was a gravel road leading to it from the Boardwalk. Between the Boardwalk and wellington st, there was a dairy depot, Dixon;s tourist cabins and a Shell station on the corner of Wellington.The other buildings on the corner were a French protestant church, a veterinarian,and Higgins grocery store.The nuns had a caretaker on the island who was constantly on the look-out for adventurous individuals who would paddle across to the island and help themselves to thelush vegetable gardens that were there.Those were the best tasting tomatoes in the world.
Hi: Having been taught by the good sisters, graduated from Marymount High 1964, I thought they had some sort of super natural powers, it was rather spooky at times, I thought they could read minds, cause, they always seemed to know when something was about to happen and were able to put a stop to it before we could do anything. It was all very innocent. In those days, boys and girls were segregated., and all we wanted to do was meet some boy, or the boy meet a girl, and damned if the good sisters wouldn't find out and some one would be in detention for a week in Mother Superior's office!!!!!! When I tell stories like this to my daughters, they think I'm from another planet...lol!! Those were the days...!!!!!
Was the dairy depot on River St, Elmhurst Dairy? My grandfather was the
night watchman there until Feb 1959. A big treat as a kid that stayed
overnight at Grandma's house, was the cream on my oatmeal for breakfast. I
guess it was one of the benefits of being a dairy employee, because we never
had it at home. Verdun Connections sure brings back memories of things that
I have not thought about in years.
YES THAT WAS ELMHURST DAIRY...BEHIND IT NEXT TO THE BOARDWALK WAS THE G.T.B.C. TENNIS CLUB WHICH FRONTED ON WELLINGTON ST. IN FRONT OF MACGILLIVRAY'S FUNERAL PARLOR>
Hey Grandtrunk2, was Grandtrunk St. In Griffintown or the Point?
Take care,
Bill
"You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history
of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the
things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with
all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive."
- James Baldwin
To.Second Ave. Grand Trunk St. is in the point. It runs from Butler St. in the west end of the point to Conde St. in the east.The Pall-Mall tavern was on the corner of Butler and Wellington ,it was the closest tavern to dry Verdun. The second closest was the one just across the Church Ave. bridge.
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